GMC ANTI-BLOG

J oseph Onwude Retired Gynaecologist, Statistician, and Epidemiologist. 51 Whitecroft Works, 69 Furnace Hill, Sheffield S3 7AH, United Kingdom. An article appeared in Medscape about the contentious matter that the General Medical Council is not fit for purpose, which is an intuitive conclusion for a doctor who has been involved in General Medical Council (GMC) procedures at the complaints level, investigations level, Interim Orders Panel hearings (IOP), five Manchester hearings of Fitness to Practice and Residual hearings after Collins J 1 , between 13/9/2013 and 2/11/2018. Like me, when you have traveled the GMC corridors, which do not stink of alcohol or otherwise for 5 years, you will surely remember that they stink of Racism and Inequality, and then you remember that the GMC is not fit for purpose. While trying to remember the views of Richard Smith (1989) in ‘Profile of the GMC: The day of judgment comes closer 2 and Fiona Goodlee in ‘The GMC, Racism, and Complaints against Do...

  Mr. Joseph Loze Onwude, MBBS, MSc, DLSH&TM, FRCOG. , Dip Comp Sci. Retired Gynaecologist, Statistician, and Epidemiologist Medico-Legal Services for Doctors Correspondence: Mr. Joseph Loze Onwude, Apartment 51 Whitecroft Works, 69 Furnace Hill, Sheffield S3 7AH, UK.   Email: jonwude9@gmail.com   No Source of Funding. There is no Patient or Public Involvement. Abstract Research Question Does the General Medical Council (GMC) understand the allegation and appreciate the finding of dishonesty when it erases doctors from the Medical Register? Research Aim and Objectives Aim To systematically assess Section 40 appeals against the General Medical Council (GMC) when erasure from the Medical Register is recommended after the Medical Act 1983 was amended in 2002. Objectives 1. To classify the appeal decisions following a Section 40 appeal to erase a doctor from the Medical Register for serious misconduct for dishonest...